the population is not supplied with provisions, [salt] is being purchased speculatively [at] high 
prices. The Congress requests an order [for] strict fulfillment of the decree [on] commodity 
exchange *.

★

To Svidersky: demand data (on salt) and send it to me.
Lenin.

1 The telegram was printed on a typewriter. The underscores in the text and the note "To Svidersky..." were made in Lenin's handwriting. After receiving Svidersky's reply, Lenin marked the document: "to archives".

* 

The Decree of the SNK "On Commodity Exchange and the Mandatory Surrender by the Population of Products of Agriculture and Handicrafts" was published in *Izvestiya VTsIK*, No. 175 of August 9, 1919.

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TELEGRAM TO N. P. BRYUKHANOV 1.

To the Commissariat of Food

Bryukhanov

11. XI. 1919

The provisioning of hungry Urals workers is necessary and urgent. 
Inform me what you have done, to what extent you have ensured supplies, and whether it is 
possible to direct these workers to harvest grain beyond Kurgan. Your complaints of depopulation are somewhat strange.

Chairman of the Revolutionary Military Council Lenin.

1 The telegram to N. P. Bryukhanov, Chairman of the Special Food Commission of the Eastern Front, was addressed: "Chelyabinsk, at the place of location".

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24731

NOTES ON THE TELEGRAM OF THE CHAIRMAN OF THE TULA GUBERNIYA 
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE SOVIET.

[17 November 1919]

In accordance with the decision of the guberniya Soviet Congress, the gubispolkom 
requests Sovnarkom to transfer Tula and the guberniya to free children's 
nutrition. This measure will undoubtedly raise the productivity of military 
factories.

In Tula, the gubsoprodkom feeds 8,000 children. During the October celebrations 
29,000 children of workers and Red Army soldiers were fed. In Tula there are 45,000 
children.